[TYPO3-dev] File Management: Importing files outside of /uploads/pics

[Andreas Schwarzkopf]

Hi,

AFAIK the DAM related extension dam_ttcontent does exactly this.

http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/search/dam_ttcontent/1.0.0/

regards
Andreas

Dmitry Dulepov schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> Bastiaan Zapf wrote:
>> How can I store a file in an arbitary path under
>> Typo3's Control and then create (for instance) a
>> textpic, that can access it? The image field in
>> "textpic" only stores the filename, not the path
>> (which defaults to /uploads/pics or something),
>> afaics. Do I somehow have to add a file administration
>> row? I'm on Typo3 v4 and Plan to use DAM, so I'd also
>> want to add metadata. The DAM API has a few calls to
>> do exactly this, but these are left blank afaics.
> 
> Not really possible. Path to files is stored in $TCA for tt_content
> table. It is global to the system.
> 
> Dmitry.